Dr. W. Ashley Griffith
Associate Professor & Field Camp Director
Field Camp Faculty since 2018
Ashley Griffith’s research focuses on structural geology and geomechanics, with an emphasis on the behavior of fractures in the earth’s crust. Fractures influence our daily lives more than most people care to realize. Fractures in rock dominate subsurface fluid flow, control earthquake hazards, and exert a huge influence on ground control problems in mining and civil engineering applications. Dr. Griffith’s particular research interests vary from the physics of earthquake rupture to crustal deformation in active margins to fracturing of reservoir rocks, but the underlying theme of our work involves collecting structural data in the field and studying that data in the context of physics-based models to learn about the processes that govern the formation, growth, and mechanical behavior of fractures in the earth’s crust.
Dr. Cristina Millan
Instructor & Field Camp Coordinator
Field Camp Faculty since 2012
Cristina Millan conducted research in structural geology with a particular focus in deformation structures in sedimentary basins and their relationships to diagenesis and the physical and mechanical properties of sediments. Dr Millan’s research links mineralized fractures, stress fields, fluid fluxes and tectonic deformation, and aims to understand how lithification, compaction, cementation and fluid flow processes are related to rifting processes.
Dr. Shelley Judge
Associate Professor at College of Wooster
Field Camp Faculty since 2001
Shelley Judge research interests include the tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide orogenies of the western U.S. and superimposed pre-Basin and Range extension, with special emphasis on these geologic events in Utah.
Dr. Demián Gómez
Assistant Professor
Field Camp Faculty since 2023
Demián Gómez is a geophysicist and a geometrical geodesist doing active research on reference frame realizations, both regional and global. He is currently the PI for two projects investigating new methods to integrate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) measurements for realizing reference frames. These frames allow him to investigate geodynamic processes such as the earthquake cycle and periodic loading and unloading of the earth’s crust. For his research he uses scientific GNSS processing tools such as GAMIT/GLOBK and open source software. Using GNSS, Dr. Gómez also studies ionospheric total electron content (TEC) signals triggered by acoustic and gravity waves.